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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 3 page report discusses "From Rosie
to Lucy" in After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, by James W. Davidson and
Mark H. Lytle. The essay demonstrates the ways in which the most common components
of the reality of life in the United States are documented through its social constructs. In
this circumstance, the role of women in American society is considered via the construct
of "Rosie the Riveter" of World War II an "Lucy" of the popular I Love Lucy television
series. Bibliography only lists the primary source.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWhisdet.rtf
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War II, a new image of the "can do" woman was presented in the persona of "Rosie the Riveter." And yet, only a decade after the war ended and "Rosie"
went back home to her husband and babies, a new persona was presented as a desired norm -- Lucille Ball in the title role of "I Love Lucy." In the
years between the start of the war and the beginning of Americas post-war prosperity, the roles of women were altered in ways that would define the ways in which subsequent
generations of girls became women. Researchers and writers such as James W. Davidson and Mark H. Lytle suggest that certain measures of "historical detection" can serve as a methodology that
allows historians, sociologists, and other researchers to better understand the ways in which the American social structure evolved between the 1950s and the end of the century. Popular
Culture as Historical Record In After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Davidson and Lytle demonstrate the ways in which the most common components of the reality of life
in the United States are documented through its social constructs. The authors demonstrate how "evidence" such as photographs from a particular period, the media of the time (i.e. television and
movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census information and demographic studies all contribute to a greater understanding of what was happening within
a particular historical timeline. What Betty Friedan presented in The Feminine Mystique and which Davidson and Lytle underscore in "From Rosie to Lucy" is that a number of symbolic
battles took place in terms of how femininity was viewed, understood, and acknowledged based on the political and economic realities of the day. What becomes clear is that the 1950s
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